An affective summarization system provides affective text summaries directed towards affective preferences of a user, such as psychological or linguistic preferences. The affective summarization system includes a summarization neural network and an affect predictor neural network. The affect predictor neural network is trained to provide a target affect level based on a word sequence, such as a word sequence for an article or other text document. The summarization neural network is trained to provide a summary sequence based on the target affect level and on the word sequence for the text document.